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Age Quotes by Mark Twain
- I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer…
- I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.
- In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like…
- By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved…
- In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
- Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
- Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and…
- When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,…
- You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
- The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of…
- I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be…
- Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human…
- A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
More Age Quotes
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or… — David Bailey
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch